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Discover LudwigThe word "wee" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an informal adjective and adverb meaning very small or for a short time. Example sentence: I was only there for a wee while before I had to get back home.
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Speaking to analysts in the wee hours of the night, Brady Dougan, its chief executive, insisted that after "detailed legal work" the bank had found "no instances" of legal barriers or other impediments that would prevent clients and counterparties from continuing to do business with Credit Suisse as a result of its guilty plea.
IN THE chilly wee hours of referendum night, George Square in Glasgow presented a dissolute scene.
In the Lords' bar, when both men were well into their 70s, Fitt would still mutter "that wee fucker" when Mason, by now a peer himself, came in.
It's an excellent wee theatre, Milton Keynes, and not just because the authorities there are civilised enough to allow you to imbibe; a 1400-seater auditorium with a pit big enough to take a large orchestra (Welsh National Opera have toured Wozzeck here in the past), but with a Glyndebourne-esque sense of intimacy and immediacy.
There were one or two wee incidents of people trying to wind him up, which is what we expected.
The Anglo-American owners, Tom & Kelli, fired up the barbecue for us as we chatted with them into the wee hours, swapping Latin American adventure stories.
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I dragged my toddlers away from CBeebies to witness this spectacle and Ted, who is 18 months old, pointed and cried "ba-wa-wee!" (toddlerese for butterfly).
The minimal, wee-small-hours Desert Night is no 35.
First ba-wa-wee of the year Shortly after waking from their winter hibernation, Moomintroll and the Snorkmaiden – Tove Jansson's woodland creatures – sit in the sunshine discussing the first butterfly of the year.
Did you get all wee-wee'd up when she posted this sweet picture?
Put it in the wee-wee jar".
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